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Author:

Jones, Steven E. (Steven Edward), author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91055616

Title:

Roberto Busa, S.J., and the emergence of humanities computing : the priest and the punched cards / Steven E. Jones.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

viii, 186 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Busa, Roberto.
Index Thomisticus.
Computational linguistics--History--United States--History--20th century.
Computational linguistics--History--Italy--History--20th century.
Humanities--History--United States--Data processing--History--20th century.
Text processing (Computer science)--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Priest walks into the C.E.O.'s office : November 1949, the meeting between Father Roberto Busa, S.J. and Thomas J. Watson, Sr. of IBM -- Oracle on 57th street : 1948-1952, the IBM SSEC large-scale calculator, representations of computing, and the role of the adjacent possible -- The mother of all humanities computing demos : June 27, 1952, the first public demo of Busa's and Tasman's punched-card method of "literary data processing" at IBM world headquarters, New York -- Centers of activity : 1954-1956, the founding of CAAL, the first literary data processing center, in Gallarate, Italy -- Computing philology : 1957-1959, the Dead Sea Scrolls: "a quality leap and new dimensions."

ISBN:

1138186775
9781138186774

OCLC:

(OCoLC)921310798

LCCN:

2015035949

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)